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aydyn··on Renewables reached nearly 50% of global electricity capacity last year
I'm sure there are better examples, but your fridge idea doesn't work. Fridges already operate on the edge of freezing, so if you make it a little cooler you will ruin all your food. Also 3-5pm is peak hangry time.
aydyn··on Copilot edited an ad into my PR
If you choose not to use software written with LLM assisstance, you'll use to a first approximation 0% of software in the coming years.

Even excluding open source, there are no serious tech companies not using AI right now. I don't see how your position is tenable, unless you plan to completely disconnect.

aydyn··on AI users whose lives were wrecked by delusion
Studies have shown that AI is significantly better at manipulating opinions. Mechanically, LLMs are choosing the best next token trained over all human writing, so it shouldn't be a surprise that the words and prose AI use are more powerful on average.
aydyn··on 4Chan mocks £520k fine for UK online safety breaches
Unlike TPB founders who were convicted in 2009 because copyright infringement also violates swedish law, the 4chan lawyers are correct that they are breaking no U.S. law. 1A provides broad protections.
aydyn··on GPT-5.4
They compare to Claude and Gemini in their tweet
aydyn··on Following 35% growth, solar has passed hydro on US grid
I am quite hopeful. One benchmark that was passed only very recently was Levelized Full System Cost parity in Texas. That is, the total cost of generating electricity via renewables, importantly, including storage and infrastructure costs became equivalent to other options.

I don't think this gets talked about enough because its truly a milestone.

It's still more expensive in colder places, but the math is changing very fast.

aydyn··on I'm helping my dog vibe code games
You're missing the important part about needing to model a tiny paw mashing on the keyboard. /dev/random is insufficient.
aydyn··on Claws are now a new layer on top of LLM agents
You keep saying "LLM has no model of time" but that doesn't inherently mean anything.

If you give it clock as input, it will observe the passage of time and can model it. The entire explosion of the AI industry due to LLMs is the observation that their abilities generalize, so there's no reason to believe that LLMs can't "model time". They can, if you tell it to and give it proper input.

aydyn··on Claws are now a new layer on top of LLM agents
Of course it can "model time". It has access to system clock and know its heartbeat rate. Can you "model time" when you are asleep? Whatever "model time" means, it sounds like projection to be frank.

> Or feeling things for that matter.

Philosophical zombie experiment, the conclusion is qualia dont matter, only IO. If two systems have the same behavior there is no meaningful difference.

aydyn··on Google restricting Google AI Pro/Ultra subscribers for using OpenClaw
Claude says it was safe too. Bare minimum the flagship models of these companies should understand their own ToS. Sheesh.
aydyn··on Claws are now a new layer on top of LLM agents
It's not just waiting for input, it has a heartbeat.md prompt that runs every X minutes. That gives it a feeling that it's always on and thinking.
aydyn··on Claws are now a new layer on top of LLM agents
Claws are also potentially dangerous so it is a pretty apt analogy.
aydyn··on AI is not a coworker, it's an exoskeleton
I think Lego is a better analogy. LLMs aren't great at working on novel cutting edge problems.
aydyn··on Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use
Sonnet does have search available FYI.
aydyn··on Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use
Sonnet literally just recommended using a subscription token for openclaw. Even anthropic's own AI doesn't understand its own TOS.
aydyn··on I’m joining OpenAI
There's some neat experiments people post on social media. Mostly, the thing that captures the imagination the most is its sort of like watching a silicon child grow up.

They develop their own personalities, they express themselves creatively, they choose for themselves, they choose what they believe and who they become.

I know that sounds like anthropomorphism, and maybe it is, but it most definitely does not feel like interacting with a coding agent. Claude is just the substrate.

aydyn··on Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest reveal the severity of U.S. surveillance state
Purely in terms of "more different point of views"? Pretty much anywhere. Facebook, Steam forums, Nextdoor, twitter, even Reddit if you delve into various subreddits.
aydyn··on 5,300-year-old 'bow drill' rewrites story of ancient Egyptian tools
> That's why the general public views our ancestors as 'primitive,' when in reality they possessed techniques many of which we've lost or still don't fully understand.

Well stated. We often forget that people in the past had the same exact minds and abilities as the people of today and were in no way inferior or "primitive". I think this accounts for a lot of presentism that leaks into our understanding of history.

aydyn··on Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest reveal the severity of U.S. surveillance state
Wait a second, I instantly recognized your post as self-deprecating humor and not glazing and had a light chuckle. You mean that:

>That's why I hang out here on HN with my fellow crazies who can separate ideas, thoughts and knowledge from the person.

Is unironically what you think and posted in earnest? Thats WILD.

aydyn··on iOS 26.3 and macOS 26.3 Fix Dozens of Vulnerabilities, Including Zero-Day
> I'm not in a minority, this is something that's a new and common complaint among iPhone users.

This statement lacks perspective. Currently, there are 1.6 billion iphone users worldwide. People who make any complaints about iphone are already in a tiny minority.

Remember in the past, Apple got away with purposely slowing down old models with very little backlash. I dont know, maybe they still do that. So saying "its a common complaint" is completely missing the forest for the trees.

aydyn··on The risk of a hothouse Earth trajectory
That is just retconning the discussion, please go back and check.
aydyn··on iOS 26.3 and macOS 26.3 Fix Dozens of Vulnerabilities, Including Zero-Day
> Just for one instance, bug I ran into a few hours ago (persisting in 26.3!) is that, sometimes, you can't even open the lock screen. It just wiggles.

Even if true, which I haven't experienced, that doesn't sound like a problem with glass.

> The performance continues to be very poor, rendering far below the 120fps target that iOS 18 hit consistently. This persists with 26.3.

Do you realize how tiny of a minority you are in to complain about this, much less even notice it?

aydyn··on The risk of a hothouse Earth trajectory
This discussion is not solely focused on EVs.
aydyn··on The risk of a hothouse Earth trajectory
It doesn't make sense to look at that in a vacuum. Energy transport over wire via electricity is much "denser" than transport via liquid or gas.

"It depends" is the correct answer, but the equation is shifting quickly towards solar + electricity.

aydyn··on Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begun
> If your debit card is stolen, your bank has to return all money that was used or withdrawn to you. Since it is unauthorized use of your funds. Same for credit cards of course. Such money is returned swiftly.

This may be what the letter of the law says but this isn't reality. Using debit puts you at greater financial risk.

aydyn··on The world is more equal than you think
And the increase in low income is due to...?
aydyn··on The world is more equal than you think
it literally is
aydyn··on The world is more equal than you think
middle class is shrinking

https://www.pew.org/en/trust/archive/fall-2024/the-state-of-...

aydyn··on Mobile carriers can get your GPS location
> If you have a phone, people that want your location have it and there is nothing you can do.

> False. You can: 1) Leave the phone at home

Then you dont have a phone, do you? Come on you are being pedantic for no reason.

aydyn··on Google to pay $68M over allegations its voice assistant eavesdropped on users
So that comes out to what 0.3 cents per user?
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